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»»■ ...... ...... ..--■-■■■. i ■ ■■■« Here and There on the Turf Today After Arlington Futurity-Meets Some Tough Youngsters Chicago Business Improving Cavalcade Can Sprint — Smith i A ■ ■ -4 Cornelius Whitney, who sent Motto from New York to Chicago to capture the Arlington Lassie Stakes, will make a serious attempt to win the Arlington Futurity as well, thereby duplicating the double scored by Charles T. Fisher last year with Mata Hari and Far Star. The eastern sportsman has five eligibles to the Arlington Futurity, which promises to reach 0,000 in value, and one of them is Today, which gave Metropolitan racegoers a display of speed and ability this spring at Belmont Park. More than probably this will be the colt on which Whitney will depend to take the western juvenile special. Today is now at Saratoga along with other members of Whitneys first string and is reported training in splendid fashion under the practiced eye of Thomas J. Healey. He bucked his shins just before his engagement in the National Stallion Stakes, in which he was to have met Plat Eye, and then a few days later he was struck by the coughing epidemic. However, the son of Which-one and Afternoon is back in good health along with aU his stablemates, and if Healey gets The Nuts half-brother up to peak form in the next week, he surely will be sent to Arlington to do what he can about upholding the prestige of the stable. While Motto won the Arlington Lassie Stakes in easy fashion. Today faces a tough assignment in the Futurity, even though he has proven himself a very fast colt. Some very promising youngsters have been uncovered in recent weeks at the Chicago course and if Today beats them it will be because he is a colt of weU above average ability. Hal Price Headley has an ezceUent prospect in Preeminent, which defeated a Continued on twenty-fifth page./ HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. good band of juveniles the other day. This son of Supremus performed very poorly in the Hyde Park Stakes, but after the race he was found to be suffering from a fever. Fortunately, no lasting effects appear to have developed, at least judging from Pre-eminents defeat of Prince Splendor, Clien-telle and others. William R. Coe, who won the Arlington Futurity two years ago with Ladysman, seems to have a capable candidate for this years renewal in Bluebeard, a grayish black son of Blue Larkspur and Herodius. This -colt had worked well and as a result was made a heavy favorite in his first appearance under silks. He raced a trifle green but exerted his class in going after the speedy Lackey and catching him on the turn, thereafter was just coasting. Bluebeard is a half brother to Pilate, which has been one of the better horses on the eastern circuit these past several seasons and might have been a champion but for wind trouble. If Bluebeard is a sample of what Blue Larkspur will sire, the three-year-old champion of 1929 will be a great success in the stud. Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane may be expected to make a bid for the Futurity as she has nine youngsters eligible to the event, including several which have displayed much promise in their races. These include Special Agent, a recent winner at Arlington. Jack Howard is another holding a stout hand for the Futurity with Albuquerque, which outfooted a number of fast two-year-olds, including Special Agent last Saturday. The gelded son of Monks Way is particularly alert at the barrier and has the happy faculty of being able to move into top speed immediately. Classic day at Arlington Park this year harked back to the good old days as far as attendance and wagering was concerned. The crowd was one of the largest ever seen at the palatial north side course, while the betting was highest at any Chicago track in a couple of years. Business at the Chicago tracks has not been very good this year, although it has shown a steady improvement at Arlington after a slow start The Classic day handle of 53,573 represented an increase of more than 0,000 over the same date in 1933, while the attendance was proportionately larger. Such improvement must make the Hawthorne management feel better. Several years ago a number of horsemen were asked to name the greatest sprinter America has ever seen and in a majority of cases they answered Man o War.. The super horse never performed in a sprint as a three-year-old, but he went away from the post so fast in the distance races in which he performed that the experts soon decided there was not a horse in the country that could keep up with him from one jump on. In fact, he was timed a quarter mile in better than :21 when "blown out" for his match race with Sir Barton at Ken-ilworth. Bob Smith, responsible for the development of Cavalcade, believes the three-year-old champion is as good a sprinter as there is in America right now, and would not be adverse to pitting him against any speedster under proper circumstances. Cavalcade proved he could mizzle for shorter distances than what he has been racing over recently in his first two starts of the season, when he equalled the mile and seventy yards record and broke the mile and a sixteenth mark at Havre de Grace. Unlike most fast horses, however, Cavalcade is able to reserve his speed, which has done much to make him the champion that he is.
